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Another word for insignificance

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insignificance

n.

unimportance, worthlessness, indifference, triviality, negligibility, nothingness, smallness, meanness, pettiness, paltriness, immateriality, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, matter of no consequence, trifling matter, nothing to speak of, nothing particular, drop in the bucket*, molehill*, drop in the ocean*.

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Another word for insignificance

noun

Lack of importance:

inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsequentialness, indifference, insignificancy, unimportance. See concern

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One after another they hasten to display their insignificance before him.
Danby therefore ordered a return from every diocese of the numbers of dissenters, both Romanist and Protestant, in order by a proof of their insignificance to remove the royal scruples.3 In December 1676 he issued a proclamation for the suppression of coffee-houses because of the "defamation of His Majesty's Government" which took place in them, but this was soon withdrawn.
The insignificance of the Jewish community in Palestine was their salvation.
One moment, he was a speck of nothing in this vastness that defined his insignificance; another, this whole world was his.
Having failed to form a rival party against Sagasta, Martos subsided into political insignificance, despite his great talent as an orator and debater, and died in Madrid on the 16th of January 1893.

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